For developing and testing cluster balancing features, it would be really nice to have some sort of tool for unbalancing partitions in a Kafka cluster that is managed by Strimzi.

Ideally some sort of cli tool or script that could load a Kafka cluster managed by Strimzi in an unbalanced manner. Maybe even accept arguments that could specify things like:

• How much data to send
• How fast to send the data
• How that data is distributed

We have an existing tool that already does some of these things [2] It would be nice if we could port this or have something very similar for the Strimzi repo. This task involves investigating what we should do here, maybe even writing up a design doc with some plans for what exactly the tool should do

[1] https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/issues/6909
[2] https://github.com/tomncooper/kafka-topic-loader